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Strategic Trade Policy with Endogenous Choice of Quality and Asymmetric Costs

Zhou, Dongsheng - 2000

This paper examines the strategic trade policy incentives for investment policies towards quality improvements in a vertically differentiated exporting industry. Firms first compete in qualities and then export to a third country market based on Bertrand or Cournot competition. Optimal policies...

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Free Trade vs. Strategic Trade : A Peek into Pandora's Box

Grossman, Gene M. - 1997

We investigate whether a welfare-maximizing government ought to pursue a program of" strategic trade intervention or instead commit itself to free trade when domestic firms will have an opportunity to manipulate the government's choice of the level of" intervention. Domestic firms may overinvest...

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Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment On Public Procurement in Uganda

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Loiacono, Francesco; Muhumuza, Edwin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement supervisory and anti-corruption agency in Uganda. The first...

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Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes

Bagwell, Kyle - 2000

The primary predictions of strategic-trade theory are not restricted to imperfectly-competitive markets. Indeed, these … predictions emerge in a natural three-country extension of the traditional theory of trade policy in competitive markets, once the … theory is augmented to allow for politically-motivated governments, so that the sign of export policy may be converted from …

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Rent-Shifting Export Subsidies with an Imported Intermediate Product

Ishikawa, Jota - 1996

This paper argues that export subsidies aimed at shifting rents from foreign to domestic producers of a final good may also serve to shift rents to foreign firms supplying an intermediate good, weakening the incentive for the subsidy. By contrast, assuming Cournot competition for both the final...

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Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles : Evaluating a Strategic TradePolicy

Berry, Steven - 1995

In May, 1981, a voluntary export restraint (VER) was placed on exports of automobiles from Japan to the United States. As trade policies go, this one was important. At about the same time, though to much less fanfare, international trade theorists were obtaining (then) startling results from...

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Estimating the Effects of Trade Policy

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1995

This paper reviews empirical methods used to estimate the impact of trade policies under imperfect competition. We decompose the welfare effects of trade policy into four possible channels: (i) a deadweight loss from distorting consumption and production decisions; (ii) a possible gain from...

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Strategic Trade Policy

Brander, James A. - 1995

This paper reviews the literature on strategic trade policy. Strategic trade policy is defined as trade policy that conditions or alters a strategic relationship between firms, implying that strategic trade policy focuses primarily on trade policy in the presence of oligopoly. The key point is...

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Strategic Trade Policy With Incompletely Informed Policymakers

Brainard, S. Lael - 1992

Ever since the inception of research on strategic trade policy, economists have warned that the informational requirements are high, and unlikely to be met in practice. This paper investigates the implications of incomplete information for a simple, rent-shifting trade policy of the type...

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The Sensitivity of Strategic and Corrective R&D Policy in Oligopolistic Industries

Staiger, Robert W. - 1990

We evaluate the sensitivity of the case for an R&D subsidy in an export sector when the outcome of R&D is uncertain and when the resulting product market is oligopolistic. Investments in R&D are assumed to induce either first order or mean-preserving second order shifts in the distribution of a...

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